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Space Archaeologists Call for Preserving Off-Earth Artifacts

Posted April 22, 2013 8:34 AM

From SPACE.com:

When it comes to preserving history, a group of archaeologists and historians are hoping to boldly go where no archaeologist has gone before. Researchers are increasingly urging humanity to protect off-Earth cultural resources. That may well mean preserving NASA's Apollo landing sites on the moon as national historic landmarks, regarding far-flung spacecraft as mobile artifacts and even working to preserve some pieces of space junk.

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04/22/2013 9:01 AM

I suppose next the'll want to preserve all of us !...

No......just everything else....

'sides everybody knows the 'landing site' was in a studio built in the area 51.....

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04/23/2013 4:02 AM

Where is the boundary between artefact and pollution?

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04/23/2013 8:50 AM

There is none....

....................Artifact rich environment.....................

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04/23/2013 9:51 AM

Quite.

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